docs: def administration(self):
          """returns the hostservice object to manage the back-end functions"""
          url = self._url
          res = search("/rest/", url).span()
          addText = "admin/"
          part1 = url[:res[1]]
          part2 = url[res[1]:]
          adminURL = "%s%s%s" % (part1, addText, part2)
  
          res = AdminFeatureService(url=url,
                              securityHandler=self._securityHandler,
                              proxy_url=self._proxy_url,
                              proxy_port=self._proxy_port,
                              initialize=False)
          return res